Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

[Georg Koss <g.koss@eunet.at>]

Hi all!

I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely
;-). 

I installed  a minimal system with Woody's rescue-discs. As you know,
this installation has a working 2.2.20-pmac kernel with it.

For further installing (I just own a 56k-modem) I tried to get
connected  via my working Woody/G4 without success since two days.

As I run Woody with my G4 and a 2.4.18-ben0 I tried to compile it for
my ibook as well to rule out any problems with new hardware ?-/.

Nope - I tried a lot of different settings resulting all in a
kernel-panic. =8-(
Last I see is something concerning NET 4.

Therefore I would peg somebody out here with a working 2.4.18 or
similar on a recent ibook (500) to send me her's/his' config-xxx, cause
I don't find my error(s).

Despite that, there seems to be a problem in recognizing the
ethernet-card correctly with my config. (GMAC=y, lastly BMAC=y)
I'm able to ping from my G4 to the ibook but not from the
ibook(192.168.1.10) to the G4 (192.168.1.1) via eth0. 

Here I found following dmesg with the ibook/2.2.20:

-----snip-------
.....
eth0: GMAC at 00:03:93:77:15:de, driver v1.3k2
3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others http://www.scykd.com/....
.....
.....
eth9 PHY ID: 0x004061e4
eth0: Warning ! Unknown PHY ID 0x004061e4 !
Link state change, pyh_status: 0x782d
     full_duplex: 0, speed: 10

----snap------

What does that warning mean?

On my ibook

ifconfig eth0 gives the following:

eth0	 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00.03:93:77:15:DE
	 inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
	 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
	 RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
	 RX bytes:450 (450.0 b) TX bytes:3058 (2.9 KiB)
	 Interrupt:41
	 
route -n shows:

Destination  Gateway	  Genmask	Flags	Metric	Ref	Use  Iface
192.168.1.0  0.0.0.0	  255.255.255.0	U	0	0	0    eth0  
0.0.0.0	     192.168.1.1  0.0.0.0       UG      0       0       0    eth0

ping results in 100% loss (-((.


I didn't find anything about GMAC in the Ethernet-HOWTO. In the
Apple-Developer-Notes I couldn't see any difference between ibooks
Oct01 and Jan02.

So I'm absolutely clueless how to install my ibook.

Any hints, recommendations, readings, help would be phantastic.

Thanks for your patience & help and have a good time 


-- 

M.f.G.

Georg Koss

mailto: g.koss@eunet.at